State of Play, November 3, 2024
We keep hearing that the race will be close. I think it will be like Patton’s Third Army racing across France in 1944.
Historians have often noted the tendency of generals to embark on a new war with assumptions more pertinent to the last one. This is what the enemy did last time; ergo, he’ll do something similar this time. That worked for us last time; ergo we should do it again. Fighting the last war is always a dangerous temptation.
The conduct of political warfare is not unlike the conduct of the wars that deploy armies rather than candidates, navies rather than the media, aircraft rather than pollsters. There is always the temptation to think that the assumptions and tactics of the last war are relevant to the current campaign.
This is especially the case, I believe, in the 2024 presidential race. The principals are the same: Donald Trump vs. what Vivek Ramaswamy has dubbed “the System.” The Dems changed out their primary avatar in July, shoehorning in Kamala Harris, where Joe Biden had been standing. But that maneuver, though profoundly anti-democratic, was merely a cosmetic expedient. The public face of the campaign was changed. The organizing soul remained the same.
In essence, the Dems are waging the same campaign now that they waged in 2016, in 2020, and beyond. Counting once again on their huge advantages in money (almost 3 to 1) and near total control of the media, they believe—or at least have acted as if they believe—that they can play the same game this time and win. They have not yet noticed—or at least have not yet effectively recalibrated their campaign to account for the fact—that many things “on the ground” have changed radically.
The Dems are fighting the last war. Trump is not.
Watch:
The video I just made and uploaded is horrible but the message still gets through. I was using Filmora and have been having trouble with my credit card so I was stuck with what I had this day.
I think I’ve found something which appears to be better (VSDC Video Editor) that is free. I’ve also downloaded and installed an earlier version of Filmora that is all bought and paid for, so I now have two options to make faster, cleaner video’s in future.
Sorry about the bad effect. That will change.
You’re probably not going to believe this but the result of tomorrows election probably revolves around the fact that NY State just murdered a tame squirrel named “P’nut” and the outrage of voters and news agencies is blowing up the entire internet for the Dems.
Can you picture Kamala when she’s 80 years old and living in an nuthouse somewhere continually screaming “I lost the f**king election because of goddamned MURDERED squirrel!!!”
Lots more coming on the situation in the morning. Don’t miss it! You won’t stop laughing.
An Aside: I note somewhere in one of the entries that Nemesis really does have a sense of humour. Sometimes I love that lady!
Going through the linked video’s I can’t stop laughing (I’m in tears over it). Tomorrow is going to be real ball breaker as P’nut eats democrats alive FROM THE GRAVE!!
And it serves them right. I would just bet that it took Nemesis MONTHS to think this one up and I applaud her.
This is a real dandy!
And “by the by” this entire election has just been turned into a world class comedy act after being so serious for so many years. All that effort and the Dems have just been “executed” by a small grey squirrel.
Who would believe it?
I do and they deserve everything they are about to receive!
Goodnight!